Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

Michael Connelly's latest addition to his best-selling Harry Bosch series, The Closers, finds the somewhat shopworn detective with a new lease on life, albeit not an idyllic one. After a couple of years of trying his hand at private investigation, LAPD detective Bosch is back on the force, this time with the mission of reopening and solving cases which have been on the back burner for decades....

Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

Sue Grafton is drawing dangerously near the end of the alphabet with her popular Kinsey Millhone mysteries, which started with A Is For Alibi and continues through the new release Q Is For Quarry. One might well ask, at the rate of one book per year, what will she do about a title in 2012, having run through all the available letters? Some folks here at BookPage have suggested that she use the...

Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

Let me say at the outset that I read more than my fair share of mysteries perhaps more than your share and my share put together. I may have gotten a bit jaded. You could even accuse me of being a little cranky, I suppose, for I have compiled a roll call of truly heinous mystery genres. In no particular order, here are the culprits du jour: 1) mysteries in which the central character is an...